ICST - BodyNets 2009 - Final Call for Papers

Final Call for Papers

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4th International Conference on Body Area Networks
April 1-3, 2009
UCLA campus, Los Angeles, CA, USA
http://www.bodynets.org
Sponsored by ICST
Technical support from ACM

Scope
Networks of sensing, computing, and communication devices are increasingly being deployed as wearable, and even implantable, systems to form Body Area Networks (BodyNets). BodyNets allow for unidirectional (monitoring) and even bidirectional (effecting) interactions with subjects. BodyNets are now appearing in diverse applications, including physiological monitoring for diagnosing, treating, tracking, and studying diseases and disorders; biokinetic monitoring for improving physical medicine and rehabilitation; human-computer interactions; and education and entertainment through interactive games. This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of designing, building, and deploying BodyNets. This will also include sessions devoted to presenting applications that are creating new business opportunities as well as compelling research challenges. In this regard, the BodyNets conference, now in its third year, aims to establish a forum for convening research prof
essionals from diverse fields, including computer science and electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, medicine, and other disciplines in both academia and industry to address the technical, social, and application opportunities being driven by BodyNets.

Topics
The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:

*BodyNets Systems and Technology
-In-vivo, on-body, and near-body networks
-Information systems including (but not limited to) architectures integrating sensing, signal processing, sensor data fusion, and related technologies
-Novel communication techniques and protocols supporting BodyNets
-System design issues including reliability, sensing integrity, system performance, energy, operating lifetime, security, and privacy

*HCI/Wearable Computing
-Wearable system architectures
-BodyNets entertainment technologies
-Assistive technologies for geriatric subjects and the disabled
-Social impact of BodyNets

*Medical Applications
-Pervasive health care and personal monitoring and guidance
-BodyNets for prosthetic devices
-Novel applications of BodyNets in healthcare

The proceedings of the conference will be published by ACM and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of technically superior papers will be invited for a special issue of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS).

*** Important Dates ***
Abstract Due: December 1, 2008 by 11:59pm PST
Full Paper Due: December 8, 2008 by 11:59pm PST
Notification of Acceptance: January 26, 2009

Submission Instructions:
The length of submitted articles is a maximum of 8 pages, following the guidelines described in the Author's Kit on the conference website. The criteria of selection for papers will be based on novelty, innovation and originality. Conference sessions will include technical contributions from papers included in the Topics above. In addition, position papers will also be included and may introduce relevant technology advances, specific wireless health product challenges and trends, as well as advances in industry associated with wireless health and other BodyNets applications.

General Chair: William Kaiser (UCLA)
Publicity Chair: John Lach (University of Virginia)
Web Chair: Michael Golamco (UCLA)
Publication Chair: Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis)

Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs: Majid Sarrafzadeh (UCLA), Mark Yarvis (Intel)

Technical Program Committee: Alex Bui (UCLA Radiology), Roozbeh Jafari (UT Dallas), Steffen Leonhardt (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Tom Martin (Virginia Tech), Sal Mastroianni (Motorola), Alex Mihailidis (Univ Toronto), Joe Paradiso (MIT), Jack Stankovic (Univ Virginia), Eric Yeatman (Imperial College), Y. T. Zhang (CUKH, Hong Kong), Lin Zhong (Rice Univ)

Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac, Sandeep Gupta, David Tacconi, William Kaiser, Majid Sarrafzadeh

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